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Helena, Montana, Thursday, August IS, 1887.

falling behind Philadelphia and that there
after she went forward SO rapidly that the
latter soon ceased to be considered form
idable rival. In 1890 Philadelphia was so per
cent. larger than New York; in 1920 it had
137, 600 people to New Yorks $4,000, and
was again gaining i'll trade; but in 1860 the
latter, including Brooklyn, had 1,076,0O0 to
Philadephia's 565, ,00O-then came the rail-
road era. The canal was q financial success
from the start. The capacity of the largest
boats was little less than 100 tons, yet the
tolls the first year were $500, 1000, and in the
tenth year thereafter a million and half.
Western New York filed up rapidly with
New England population, and the local traffic
was immense; but it soon appeared that an
equal stimulus had been given to all the
country near the western lakes, and soon
after branch canals in Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois added each its quota and swelled the
traffic on the Erie to its utmost capacity. The
states between New York and the Mississippi
gained $50 per cent in population, while
New York only gained 100. In 1886 New
York furnished 20 per cent. of all the
cereals transported on the canal; forty
years afterward, only 20 per cent, and
her proportion is sometimes far below
that. In 1910 the total tonnage through the
canal to tidewater was 294 900 tons; in 1862 it
was 2,0S7 900 tons, and then the tide began to
turn. 1t was no sudden thing, for the rail
roads had noticeably checked the growth of
canal transportation long before this In
1871 the total tonnage was 100000 tons, and
in 1876 but $50, 900 tons. The rapidity with
which the cheapness of railroad freight had
gained on that of canal freight is certainly a
most surprising, if not the most significant,
fact of our times. In 1853 the average rail
rates through New York were nearly two and
a half cents per ton per mile; twenty years
after but a cent, and on the Pennsylvania
road but nine mills. From 1860 to 1870 the
cost on through lines averaged very near
cent and half In 1S75-76 rates were as low
as six or seven mills. Averaging forty years,
the cost on the canal cannot be put below
eight mills; but later rates are lower, and it is
assumed that five and half mills may be re-
lied on. 1t is obvious that so narrow mar
gin does not offset the many other advantages
of the railroads. The result is shown in the
decrease of boat construction, amounting i'll
some years to actual suspension.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18

in the race. Early DIR. Z. D. sTANDlFORD
in July the doctor married Miss Laura Scott,
a young lady of Paducah. Some days after
he was taken with slight illness, but treated
it with Indifference, and physicians were not
called till four days before his death. Neither
he nor his family had any idea of his danger
till few hours before his death.
Dr. Standiford was native of Kentucky;
and though his parents were excellent people
and of high social rank, they were reduced to
poverty about the time of his birth, so, as
early as he was able to do any work. he was
put in the employ of the wealthy Phillips
family near Louisville. The sons of the fam
ily were a rather naughty and thoughtless
set, and treated him harshly; and once in a
fit of anger he told them he would one day
own all they now considered their own.
That prophecy was literally fulfilled for the
boys wasted their patrimony, and DR.. Stan
diford became its owner, including several
thousand acres adjoining what is now the
southern boundary of Louisville. He showed
great business ability at an early age; saved
his earnings as laborer, invested them ju-
diciouslv and was considered well to do at
thirty, Thereafter all he touched seemed to
turn to money. He bought largely in the
ID
ures. and sold out the day the stock touched
its highest point = 165. He bought the
majority of shares in the L.. n. A. and c.
road at an average of 20, and afterwards
sold at no. He was once president OF the
Louisville and Nashville road, anu later
director of the Farmers and Drovers' bank;
besides he was farmer on an extensive scale
and conducted other business enterprises.
His wealth is popularity estimated at S3,OOO,-
600, though estates usually shrink below this
supposed value in settling. He leaves seven
children. five of his first wife and two OF bis
second. the latter and 10 years of age. his
third marriage attracted much attention,
the bride, daughter of a merchant in Padu-
cah being very handsome and intelligent and
but % years old After three weeks married
life she is widow. DR.. Standiford was for
MANY years before his death sort of politi-
cal autocrat in Louisville; he had himself
elected to congress for two terms, and only
quit political life to take control OF the l..
and N. railroad. His death renders the re-
election of Senator Beck certainty.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
ERIE BASIN, NEW YORK.

The largest and finest boat, called the
Seneca Chief, was drawn by four richly
caparisoned gray horses, and carried Gov
ernor De Witt Clinton, Lieutenant Governor
James Tallmadge, Gen. Stephen Van Rensse-
laer and other officials. Another boat, Noah's
Ark. carried live and stuffed specimens OF
nearly all the animals of the then "wild west"
"a bear, two fawns, eagles and fur bearing
animals besides two young Seneca Indians in
their native costume. From Albany to New
York the fotilla was towed by the Chancel-
lor Livingston, the great Hudson steamer OF
that time. Before daylight of Nov. 1t
neared the city; then all the cannon doomed,
the bells rang and the population fastened to
the wharf. The receiving steamers, beautl'
fully decorated, took the officials ON board.
An the vessels in the harbor of all nations
gave loud welcome from their cannon, and
With impressive ceremonies the keg OF Lake
Erie water was poured into the bay by Gov.
ernor Clinton as an emblem of completed
commercial union.
And the canal did al! that was expected OF
II and much more; for the statistics snow
clearl that New York city had been slowly
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
UP THE HUDSON.
Visit to Tarrytown and Talk About Its
Monuments.

Visit to Tarrytown and Talk About Its
Monuments.
Special Correspondence
TARRYTOwN, Aug. lit is standing sar-
casm that the American people are enthu-
siastic in promising monuments and able in
drawing resolutions, but painfully slow in
paying over the money or erecting the struc-
ture. This was once true enough to hurt, but
of late years we have done much to redeem
ourselves We have completed the Washing
ton monument, making it the grandest thing
of the kind in the world; we have erected
one or more marble memorials to each of the
great men of the revolution, and soldiers
monuments for the last war dot the country
in all directions. 1t is a poor town indeed
that has no soldiers monument But no Sec
tion of the country is richer in materials for
commemoration, or in natural and artificial
monuments, than the valley of the Hudson;
and in every town from New York city to
Troy one may see one or more monuments of
great interest to the student of American
history. Indeed, an exhaustive study of the
noble scenery, the historic spots and the
handsome monuments on the american
Rhinen would amount to liberal education
in local history.
The monuments commemorating the Ar
nold-Andre affair arouse memories both sad
and amusing When Cyrus Field put up the
memorial to Andre his act was first laughed
at as the freak of an anglomaniac, but anger
soon succeeded to laughter, and in no long
time the monument was destroyed-the act
being conveniently attributed to the Irish
laborers on the railroad then being built up
the west shore of the Hudson. In licle
while Mr.. Field had another monument
erected, and it became an established custom
for each passerby Of the free and easy sort to
"heave derrick" at it. SO the protector had
itrepaired and defended by stout wall and
iron fence. and so it remains, but it is darkly
whispered i'll the little railroad town near by
that ivan o. the b'yes has a schame, be COB,
thatll sind the thing a fiyin' in the air one o.
these foine dark nights whin no vans near
enough to git hurt" 1t would, therefore, be
wisdom to keep away from the monument on
dark nights.
The Field monument to Andre is on the west
side of the Hudson, on the hill at Tappan,
where the spy was hanged; but on the other
side of the river, a few miles above, i'll the
lovely hill city of Tarrytown, is a monument
at which neither Irish nor American can
have other emotion than respect for the brave
and honorable. 1t is the monument to John
Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van
Wart, who captured Andre Oh the spot on
the morning of Sept. %, 1880. The first his
tories unfortunately printed the last hero's
name Van Vert, and in that shape it is per-
petuated in scores of towns, counties and
townships all over the west, but, in truth, it
was the good old Dutch Van Wart, and so
his descendants still spell it. Another me-
mortal in Tarrytown which attracts ell visi-
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doing some work this company sold out to
the state for S152,71S. The scheme was re-
newed occasionally till 1903, when 5000 was
appropriated and the route surveyed. De
Witt Clinton, then member of the state
senate, took up the project, but it was not
till April 16, 1916, that the legislative labor
was complete. Thereafter the work ad-
vanced rapidly; in 1919 the first boat passed
from Utica to Rome, and in 1926 the canal was
completed Panegyric and hyperbole were ex-
hausted by all the editors and pamphleteers of
the day in describing the glorious progress of
Governor Clinton and suite on the first
through fiotilla of boats. Cannon previously
stationed for the purpose signaled the de-
parture of the hotilla from Buffalo, one shot
following the preceding one west of it all
the way to New York city and Sandy Hook,
and at all the towns on the line there were
elaborate ceremonies, patriotic, allegorical,
and in many cases intensely spiritual" The
hurrah of May 10, 1869, over the ''last tie" on
the Union Pacific, was mere whisper COM
pared to it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
FIRST CLASS.

The Inauguration of the first railroad in
France which really aroused public interest
and enthusiasm was the Saint German road
in 1887. All the journals were filled with
talk about railroads. The whole public were
in an excitement over it. That was really
the first railroad proper that was operated
in France The ceremonies of inaugura-
ton lasted three days. The queen, a duchesse
and some dukes had the first day. Men of
financial fame men in charge of industrial
interests, politicians and engineers had the
second day for their own, while the third day
was given over to the general public. On that
day $4,000 passengers went over the road
without accident
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
A PIN.

Oh. know certain woman who is reckoned
with the good,
But she fills me with more terror than a raging
lion would.
Tie little chills run up and down my spine when
eer We meet,
Though she seems gentle creature and she's
very trim and neat.
And she has thousand virtues and not one ac-
knowledged sin,
But she is the sort of person you could liken to
pin.
And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way
that can't be said
When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you
cannot find the head.
ing pain
Il anybody asks you why, you really can't ex-
plain.
Apin is such tiny thng-of that there is no
doubt
Ys. when it's sticking in your flesh, you're
wretchel till it's out!
She Is wonderfully observing when she meets
pretty girl
She is always sure to tell her if her bang is out
Of curl.
And she is so sympathetic: to her friend, who's
much admired,
She is often heard remarking, Dear, you look so
worn aud tiredr'
And she is a careful critic, for on yesterday she
eyed
The new dress was airing with a woman's nat
ural PRIDE
And she said, "Oh, how becoming" and then
softly added, 1T
Is really misfortune that the basque is such
fit"
Then she said, IF you had heard me yestereve
lin sure my friend,
You would say am champion who knows how
10 defend"
And she left me with the feeling-most unpleas-
ant, aver
That the who world would despise me If it had
not been her.
Whenever enco r her, in such a nameless
way
She gives me the impression l am at my worst
that day.
And the hat that was imported land that cost me
half a sOnneD
With just once glance from her round eyes be-
comes Bowery bonnet.
She is always bright and smiling, sharp and shin
ing for a thrust
Csc does not seem to blunt her point, nor does
she gather rust.
Oh: wish some hapless specimen of mankind
would begin
TO tidy up the world for me. by picking up this
pin.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in The Century.
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A Variation of Hood.

remember, remember,
That boarding house forlorn, *
The little window where the smell
OF hash came in at morn.
mind the broken looking glass,
The mattress like rock,
The servant girl from County Clare, @sy
Whose face would stop clock. -.
remember, l remember,
The gutta percha hen
They used to serve as chick of spring,
To thirteen hungry men.
We blasted it with dynamite,
We vexed its bones full sore,
In vain; twas served up fricaseed,
For two or three days more. 81.
remember, l remember, Il
The next rooms fiendish wight,
Who practiced the b fiat cornet
From early morn till night.
We stood his dreary 'Peek-a-boo,"
Sweet Violets" and more;
But when he tried I'VE Never Speak,"
We wallowed in his gore.
remember, I remember,
The lengthy weekly bill,
Received by me with shudders and 80
The symptoms of chill. =.
also call to mind the night, ssa
When no one was about, -
When into space dropped my trunk,
And through the dark skipped out.
Chicago Herald.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
The Young Queens Pet Spaniel.

Leslie in his "reminiscences relates that forty
nine years ago, at the time of her coronation,
Queen Victoria had pet spaniel, which was
always on the lookout for her return when
she was away from home. On the day of
her coronation her majesty had, of course,
been separated from her pet longer than
usual. and when the state coach drove up to
the palace steps she heard him barking JOY
ously in the hall, and exclaimed, "There's
DASH and was in hurry to doff her crown
and royal robe and go and give Dash Lis
bath II don't know why" said Leslie, "but
the first sight of her in her robes of state
brought tears into my eyes, and it had this
effect upon many people; she looked almost
like child. New York Tribune
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
Very SOciable.

"The people of New York are not very
sociable, are they!" said western man, ad-
dressing an acquaintance who lived in the
east
'Well, don't know but they are, although
they may be little peculiar in that respect.
For several years l had my office in a very
large building on Broadway. One day fel-
low came in and asked if my name was J. w.
McFiddleton. l told him it was, and then,
after a few moments silence, he said: My
Office is just across the hall, and ever since
saw your sign several years ago have been
intending to drop in and see you. l am
your brother, you know, and-well. how are
you getting along, anyway? Yes,' con-
tinued the eastern man, "they are tride
peculiar, but after you get in with them you
find them very sociable. ."-Arkansaw Trav-
eler
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my mind, but when do. mean to do or die,
and never lose my senses. l see my wife at
home; see them strugglin' and screamin' in
the water; see myself and knows as all de-
pends on me, an l put my feet firm on the
keel when l get among 'em, stopped down
summat, reached over the gunnel tgunwale)
carefully and has 'em in. = = First come
little boy. Then body, then Mr. Sweets
ger and his wife and child. landed them
and pulled for something see moving in the
wake of the Deane." He had landed the first
load on the Deane He got woman onto
the Deane who was still alive, but died be-
cause there were no appliances for reviving
those exhausted in the water. He saved two
others, making seven in all. In taking up
one very large woman, her weight rolled his
boat over till it dipped large quantity of
water, and all had narrow escape. Arthur
is pleasant and extremely modest man, and
bears the honors heaped upon him very grace
fully. He remains in the service of the
steamboat company and has no desire to
loo oya II
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
2 NJ. T HUNTER.


life SO full of vicissitudes ended in placid
old age and peaceful death in his quiet coun-
try seat-a striking though mournful illustra-
ton of the great peace that has settled upon
the land since the terrific struggles over slay-
cry, war and reconstruction.
Mr.. Hunter was born in Essex county,
April 80 1S09-born politician, one might
say, as his voice was heard in local debate
even before his majority, and he was party
leader as soon as he was voter Educated
at the University of Virginia and the Win
chester law school, he was admitted to the
bar in 1880, and soon after served three years
in the legislature. In 1887 be was elected to
congress at the early age of %; was reelected
in 1889 and 1S41, defeated in 1913, again
elected in 1S45 and while serving that term
chosen to the United States senate, which he
entered in December 1S47, and never left
till the war began. in 1861 In the Twenty
sixth congress he served as speaker at the
early age of 80. Indeed, like Henry Clay, he
presented one of those rare instances in which
the mind attains the fullness of its powers
very early, and yet retains them unimpaired
to the last day of a long life. During the
doubtful days of the early part of 1861, Mr..
Hunter remained in the senate till its ad-
journment; the secession of Virginia followed
two months after and he was formally ex-
PEELED at the called session in July. as he had
actively taken sides with the seeded states.
He was a member of the Confederate con-
gress and Confederate secretary of state; was
one of the noted peace conference, meeting
Lincoln and Seward at Hampton Roads, and
after the collapse of the Confederacy was az
rested by the Federal authorities, but soon
released on parole. In 1867 he received
pardon from President johnson and again
entered public life serving as state treasurer
Of Virginia Thereafter he retired from
service and soon closed his active and some
what stormy life almost on the very spot
where it began.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
THAT DREADFUL BOY.

I'm looking for dreadful boy
Does anybody know him p
Who's leading all the other boys
The way they shouldn't go in.
think if / could find that boy,
I'd stop what he is doin'-
4 bringing all the other boys
To certain moral ruin.
There's Tommy Green, CROWN lad
His mother does inform me,
The way that he is getting bad
Would certainly alarm me.
She feels the blame should rest upon
John Brown-a recent conner
For Tommy was lovely child
A year ago this summer.
But when / spoke to Mrs. Brown
Her inmost soul was shaken,
To think that Mrs. Green could he
So very much mistaken.
She did assure me Johnny was
As good child as any.
Except for learning naughty things
From Mrs. Writings Benny.
And Mrs. Whiting frets because
OF Mrs. Blackham's Freddy;
She fears he's taug"t young Benjamin
Some wicked tricks already.
Vet Fred is such an innocent
4 have it from his mother.
lie wouldn't think of doing wrong.
Untempted by another.
Oh, when think I've found the boy
Whose ways are so disgracin',
always learn he's some one else,
And lives some other place in.
And if we cannot search him out
He will most dreadful pity
spoil all the boys, who otherwise
Would ornament our city.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18

The first railroad in England was b:iit in
1867, but the first carrying locomotive was
from Darlington to Stockton in 1926; but not
until the 18th of September, 1880, did Eng
land have a railroad which carried passen-
gers as they carry them today, for there is
but little difference in their transportation of
first class passengers now and then. The car
was divided into three compartments. Their
baggage was put on the top of the car after
the manner of country staging. There are
to this day certain lines of railroads in Eng
land where they do the same thing.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
a COiored Hero.

The hero of the hour in New York city is
the colored man who saved seven lives, on the
occasion of the capsizing of the sloop Mys-
tery in Canarsie bay, week or two ago.
Arthur Robinson, the rescuer, is a dark
mulatto, of fine form, great strength and
good health, 50 years old, and a native of
Quire Creek, Va. When only 10 years old he
ran away and went to sea, and has since
lived chiefly on the water, having been for
seven years past in the employ of Capt. Col
Inns. of the Reaper. The Mystery was distant
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18

men, was one of
the eminent histori-
Cal scholars of the
country. Probably
no other man in
Washington was SO
well and minutely
informed on the
events of the last
fifty years, for he
had been a close OBJ
server since boy
hood, had read
much, and retained
his memory in full
vigor to the age Of
-. Indeed, he had
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
THE FIRST RAILROADS.
HOW THEY CARRIED PASSENGERS
AND FREIGHT IN EARLY DAYS.

Cuts Showing the Styles of Locomotives
and Cars that Were Used in France and
England When the Ways for the Iron
Horse Were First Opened.
The first railroad in France was built in
1928 between Saint Etienne and La Loire, but
it carried only vehicles drawn by horses. 1t
was not properly a railroad; it was only
tramway. The first locomotive drawing cars
was put in operation in 1882 between Saint
Etienne and Lyons, but it drew principally
merchandise. Passengers were carried in a
compartment attached to the freight cars
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personally witnessed many the most inn
portant events since 1920, for - was a native
of Maryland and spent his lie in and near
Washington. In 1850, and again in 1860, he
was commissioner of the census, and a strong
movement was inaugurated to place him in
the same position for 1880, but Francis A.
Walker was appointed instead In early life
Mr.. Kennedy was an ardent follower of
Henry Clay, and took an active part in Wing
conventions. After the death O. the Wing
party ne became known as an anti-slavery
Democrat, and at the time of the assault on
Senator Sumner in the senate chamber he at
tempted to interfere, and received from
friend of Brooks blow that broke his nose.
He was on terms of intimate friendship with
many OF the public men of the war period
and following years, and was often consulted
by them as an authority ON local history. He
leaves son and two daughters, one of the
latter the wife Of Gen. john H. Bidwell, the
noted landowner Of California.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-08-18
An Unbeaten Racehorse.

Hanover, the 3-year-old chestnut colt here
pictured, is interesting all horse fanciers in
New York and the east. His dam is Bourbon
Belle and his sire Hindoo; and he has never
yet been distanced. Last season as a 2-year-
old he won four races, and early in July he
had won twelve this season. At Sheepshead,
June %, he ran the mile and half in 2:41l$,
carrying 118 pounds, and at Monmouth Park,